Milorad Dodik

Milorad Dodik (12 March 1959-) was President of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 15 November 2010, succeeding Rajko Kuzmanovic. He was a member of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats.

Biography
Milorad Dodik was born in Banja Luka, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia in 1959 to a family of Bosnian Serbs. He entered politics during the 1980s as an SKJ member, and he served as a representative in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War of the 1990s. Dodik went on to become President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, and he was elected President of the Republika Srpska in 2010.